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A New Encounter Starts with A Great Shanghai Cuisine
Last Friday, we had a gathering after work with a few friends. One was my ex-colleague that I have not met for almost 2 years, another two were friends that I got to know through my introduction/placement at work. I thought we can be friends besides work, so I contacted them, and they were happy to join. We went to a Shanghai restaurant at Shimbashi. This was my first time to the restaurant. I googled for cheap and good food at Shimbashi, and found the restaurant. Everyone queued up at lunch and gave very good comments, so I thought it won’t be that bad even for dinner. When I arrived there, the front gate looked not promising; just dull and too simple; just like any ramen shop you would find elsewhere. But, since I booked it already, so I had had no way but walked it. There came the Chinese lady and asked me if I am Chinese, I told her I am Malaysian Chinese, at first she couldn’t catch well what I said, perhaps my pronunciation was terrible, anyway, we sat and she recommended us Sauced Duck for a start, shown in the photo. First bite, my! it was really good! We all liked it, and that’s how it started. I never had this dish in Japan before. I did have it in Malaysia before, but not in Japan. It brought me to the nostalgic valley for a while. In fact, you can get anything in Tokyo nowadays, but I never tried it all the while. All of a sudden, I am thinking of something else in my mind. Anyway, later we had a few dishes, mostly recommendations, but all of them were great dishes!!
It was a great night. We all had lots of laughs, lots of talks even this was the first time group, but looks like I didn’t make any lousy companion selections this time. Shizuka, gave a pink chrysanthemum, I don’t know if the flower means anything, but it means a lot to me, for the last day at my last company. Thanks Shizuka!
After the first round, we left the restaurant and went for coffee invited by Rika. Her office is actually around the area, so she knew the places well. She took us to this coffee shop and we had chiffon cake too. We talked about relationships, about things we want to do, and little little things that made all of us laughed and happy. If not because of the train I need to catch before 12:00am, I think we would have continued for another hours. So much of talks and laughs. We had a great time, especially me.
Every gathering has its end. We said sayonara in the rain, and train took me back to where I belonged.
Sweet and Sour Pork
First time I have this dish with quail eggs. Last time we ordered sweet and sour pork, it was more red-like, today somehow it’s more fried pork-like, and with quail eggs. Depends on mood, huh? Whatever, but it tasted great!
